Astronauts and polar bears? In one place?!?!? Well, no, two places: New quizzes!
Project Gemini. Did you know what NASA project came between Mercury and Apollo? Yeah, neither did I. I wasn’t born yet, you see. But now I want to take a field trip down to the Air & Space Museum to check out the capsule they’ve got on display.
Polar Science. Ah, this one was fun. I like the poles. You will do better on this quiz if you have seen Encounters at the End of the World, the Werner Herzog documentary about Antarctica. It’s a great movie, so you should see it even if you don’t organize your life around doing better on my quizzes.
For all my Science Channel quizzes click here.
Hey! The pop culture blog at USA Today linked to my pi quiz! Woo!! Pi day is Saturday. Don’t forget to eat pie! And tell all your friends to take the quiz, of course. You haven’t lived until I’ve told you that you don’t know the formula for the volume of a sphere. (I had to look it up, personally. And my guess was way off.)
These first two quizzes for the Science Channel aren’t new, but they came out before I started blogging.
Giant Squid – This quiz will tell you how to say “giant squid” in Spanish. Yes, that *is* totally awesome. Tell all your friends.
Botany – Everything about botany in eight kinda difficult (oops) questions. But they’re funny!
But wait!! There’s a NEW quiz!
Test your knowledge about pi. You know, the number. Ok, eventually I ran out of questions about pi and asked about pie instead. You know why? Because I love pie, and it’s my quiz. This is part of a mini-site on the Science Channel website in honor of Pi Day, which is this Friday – 3/14. Eat more pie! Be sure to vote in the poll – which do you like better, pi or pie?
To find others in this very amusing series (if I do say so myself), click on “quizzes” in the tag cloud.
I’m writing a whole batch o’ quizzes for the Science Channel (it’s part of the Discovery empire, which is based just up the road in Silver Spring). Three more went up today! You can test your knowledge on:
Dinosaurs! This one is probably the funniest. And the one with the most questions about Jurassic Park.
Taste! I quoted a They Might Be Giants song in this quiz. An obscure They Might Be Giants song.
Bugs! A month or so ago I heard a talk about insect diversity. The guy said, “To a nearest approximation, all species on earth are insects.” I didn’t get to use that quote in the quiz, so I’m happy to be using it now. Bugs are awesome.
I’m writing a series of quizzes for Discovery’s Science Channel. Here’s the latest batch. They’re about the elements – earth, fire, all that stuff – but also test your knowledge on important topics like madrigal composers of the English Renaissance.
